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THE July number of the Journal of the Armstrong College Mining Society has recently been issued. Probably the most important paper in it is one by Prof. Granville Poole and Mr. J. T. Whetton on “Skip Winding”, showing how this method is being adopted in a number of German mines, even in certain collieries. It is doubtful to what extent this method of winding is applicable to British collieries, but its use should, no doubt, be carefully considered. It has, of course, been used for many years as the main method of winding in the metalliferous mines of Cornwall, although the authors of the paper appear to have overlooked this fact entirely. It may also be pointed out that they make no allusion to the methods which have been recently tried in Germany of constructing skips of material lighter than steel. Another interesting paper is one by Mr. M. T. Adamtchik on the so-called ‘Aeroto’ fan, which apparently is simply a multiple propeller fan. Curiously enough, the author makes no reference to the Steart fan, which was the first type of propeller fan ever employed; it would appear that the fan here described is simply a development of the latter fan. The Journal concludes with a glossary of mining terms, with French and German equivalents, which unfortunately are not always correct.
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Armstrong College Mining Society. Nature 130, 878 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130878d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130878d0